Perhaps the intent is to not be belittling, or, relatedly, not imply that something should be trivial for everyone. If someone replied to me that I "just need

Perhaps the intent is to not be belittling, or, relatedly, not imply that something should be trivial for everyone. If someone replied to me that I "just need to set up the Kafka consumer" I'd have no idea how to do that, and would potentially feel embarrassed about needing to ask for further information.